Favorite films

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  Watched 29 Mar 2025

  Singularly oneiric, as is all of his work. I am drawn to cinema in part because it indulges my inner voyeur, and this film knows that we all have that same perversion. After having discovered him hiding in her closet the night before, Dorothy tells Jeffrey that she looked for him there again later. Watching a Lynch film gives one the sense he's looking for us in the cinema because, of course, he is.

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  Borderline 2025

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Nicely proves the point that horror comedy requires a deft and precise blend of elements to work by, well, not striking that balance. Still, Samara Weaving turned up for work and managed to be funny by being openly annoyed by the proceedings.

Popular reviews

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  Drive 2011

  Rewatched 23 Jun 2023 2

  If one wears a Letterboxd T-shirt to the Drive screening that apparently had a lot of Letterboxd members in it, does one “win”?

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  Nosferatu 2024

  Watched 01 Jan 2025

  Does nothing to demystify the process of buying real estate. Gets a long way on imagery. Nicholas Hoult ably provides an emotional core for the story but seems to be in his own, different movie as a result.